The most frequently used technique for soldering electronic parts is hand soldering, specially when you are still creating your prototype boards. This is commonly performed with the use of a soldering ...

As 2025 comes to close, we present you with the Prototyping and Production edition of Elektor. Inside, you’ll find a wealth ...

Soldering to a PC board can be tricky: Too much heat can make the copper trace lift right off the board substrate. Use a soldering pencil rated at 15-25 watts, no more. (Watch the video; story ...

If you design printed circuit boards, then you will have also redesigned printed circuit boards. Nobody gets it right the first time, every time. Sometimes you can solder a scrap of 30gauge wire, flip ...

Here is a simple but inexpensive inverter for using a small soldering iron (25W, 35W, etc) In the absence of mains supply. It uses eight transistors and a few resistors and capacitors. Transistors Q1 ...

Printed circuit boards (PCBs) have become the foundation of contemporary electronics, appearing in nearly all electronic equipment. The worldwide printed circuit board industry is continually ...

Mill-Max's organic fibre plug (OFP®) solder barrier receptacles are discrete sockets for through-hole soldering into printed circuit boards. Mill-Max's organic fibre plug (OFP®) solder barrier ...